Romney’s Big Lie

Paul Krugman
NYT

Suppose that President Obama were to make the following statement:

Mitt Romney believes that corporations are people, and that only corporations and the wealthy have a right to be paid for the efforts. He wants to reduce middle-class Americans to serfs, forced to accept whatever pay corporations choose to give them.

If Obama actually said anything like that, there would be a huge outcry. Romney has in fact said that corporations are people, and clearly favors policies that would be good for the wealthy and not so good for the middle class. But that’s a long way from proposing that the middle class be reduced to serfdom, and Obama would rightly be castigated for saying any such thing.

Yet here’s what Romney said yesterday:

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